USN-3297-1

Description

jbig2dec vulnerabilities Bingchang Liu discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9601) It was discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7885) Jiaqi Peng discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7975) Dai Ge discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7976)

Affected Systems

• ubuntu•jbig2dec

  < 0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1 | < 0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1

References (5)

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3297-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9601
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7885
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7975
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7976